• "Oh no I'm a vampire." I moaned

    I looked back at the image of myself in the mirror. The red and black cheap velvet clung to my body, the dress looked old and the black looked like a faded blue. I groaned as I cursed my mom and then cursed myself for letting my mom pick out my halloween costume. I reached for the paper bag on the floor that had hidden this dress from the outside world and now i know for good reason. I reached out and pulled out the black tiara and grumbled to myself.

    "At least I'm a queen."

    I nestled the tiara on my blackish blue hair and let it out of its loose ponytail letting cascade to my waist. My hair was slightly curly and very thick.I ran fingers through it giving it a slight comb through before slipping on my black flats and headed for the door to leave my house.

    Outside the sky was a dark lavender and the street lights were already turned on. Very unaware of my surrounding I walked down the sidewalk my image in the mirror haunted my head and I wrapped my arm around myself trying to hide my body, I walked the familiar path to the bus stop, it was etched into my head due to the fact I had walked this path for nearly a decade now to get where I needed top be.

    I sat on the purple bench and looked off to the left to wait and see the headlights of the bus when it comes. The chilly air was now pinching my skin through the thin fabric as I sat there not moving. Now I hugged myself for warmth rather that hiding my body. I prayed for the bus to come sooner because I could feel frost forming on my leg hair stubble.

    The bus did come, but not for another ten minutes, I sat in the middle of the bus at a window seat,the bus was pretty dead despite it being halloween. I stared at my reflection, well more like glared at it as I noticed how witch like I looked, I wasn't a vampire queen I was a lousy ugly witch, my hair was now frizzy and skin too pale but slaso flushed from the cold air my neck seemed rather long to me my nose bumpy and my eyes small and black that hid behind round frames like Harry Potter. My mom swore my eyes were dark blue but she couldn't fool me like she did when i was eight.

    The sound of someone sighing in relief interuppted my self loathing and plunged me into anger because the whole bus was practically empty and some weirdo chose to sit next to me and invade my person space. I almsot growled in anger at the way my night was going but didn't due to the little sanity I had.

    " Why are you looking so angry at your hands."

    I snapped my head up at the most beautiful boy,nay man I had ever seen. His skin was pale but perfect compared to mine, his hair was a wavy black that had a sort of elegance to it. His eyes although were a blood red.He sat about a head taller than me.

    "Pardon?"

    "You looked so angry at your hands I felt bad for them." he chuckled

    "Uh.."

    "I'm sorry I'm Vincent, I noticed your vampire queen costume and thought I should sit with my people."

    I looked at his outfit and saw he had a dorky black and red dracula outfit on that still looked nicer than my joke of costume anyday.

    "Oh yeah huhn.." I mentally facepalmed at my intellectual vocabulary..wouldn't want to confuse him.

    He smiled and I could feel my heart race but then I noticed the sharp ends of his k9 teeth.I raised my eyebrow and stared at them.

    "They're caps and these are contacts," he pointed o his teeth then his eyes.

    "I have a crappy costume so I had to make up for it in cosmetics."

    I nodded still not sure as to what i should say. I couldn't even stare at him for more than ten seconds without getting tongue tied. I never had someone like him or let alone have them talk to me. I personally didn't like it. I wanted him to look down at me and scoff then get up and leave me be

    "Are you going to the party?" he asked smiling still

    "No I dress like this everyday." That wiped the smile off his face. his brows knit in confusion but then he smiled again and laughed waving his index finger.

    We sat in silence the rest of the ride to my friends party and I saw stuck thinking on how she knew someone like him.Charismatic and cute...she was like me..how did Jody do it.

    I looked up at the orange screen that showed the stop that was next. I peeked over at the strange guy next to and saw him smiling happily..too happily. I rwached and pulled the rope, Five minutes later the chimes rang and we both stoop up and headed for the exit.

    I walked down first and tried walking faster than him up to the steps of the mansion Jody lived in until I felt a hand cover my mouth and pull me into the blackness.